Mr. van Boven (Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the question of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment), introducing his report (A/58/120), said that he was deeply troubled that considerations of expediency and presumed higher interests were eroding the consensus on the principle that torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment were absolutely prohibited and that their prohibition was an imperative norm of international law.
van Boven (Relator Especial de la Comisión de Derechos humanos sobre la cuestión de la tortura y otros tratos o penas crueles, inhumanos o degradantes), al presentar su informe (A/58/120), dice que está profundamente perturbado porque las consideraciones de rapidez y supuestos intereses más altos están erosionando el consenso sobre el principio de que la tortura y otros tratos o penas crueles, inhumanos o degradantes están absolutamente prohibidos y que su prohibición es una norma imperativa del derecho internacional.